Thanks to the dedicated efforts of BBMF engineers, the fighter aircraft are beginning ... continued role in commemorating ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

RAF chiefs have paid tribute to the last of The Few — by painting his name on a fighter plane that starred ... hero was the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He was shot down four times ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Less than 3,000 Allied airmen took part in the air battle ...

It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War. It earned great fame during the Battle of Britain, when the Few held off the ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

was considered in the 1930s to be the cutting edge in military aviation – what we would today call a “next generation” fighter plane. On the first day of the Battle of Britain, on May 10th ...

Beatrice Shilling a graduate from The University of Manchester made a small adjustment to RAF fighter plane which helped them to ... marking the 75 th anniversary of the end of The Battle of Britain.

John 'Paddy' Hemingway joined the RAF at the age of 19 and became one of the airmen Winston Churchill described as 'The Few' ...

Three of us were absolutely impossible and we went on fighters - and I was one of those three.“ During the Battle of Britain ... the tail section of the aircraft his parachute then deployed ...

Paddy Hemmingway, originally from Dublin, was among the men known as "The Few", coined by Winston Churchill to describe the Battle of Britain pilots ...